>>19722751No, in an article, it says the statue of David is cross-eyed. But it's an interesting connection regardless. It also says it was Donatello who rejected the stone as too flawed that Michelangelo ultimately used to sculpt David.
>His benefactors indeed proclaimed in ‘Perfect!” Too perfect in fact to sit so far away atop the Duomo roof. So a commission was formed, which included none other than an aging Leonardo da Vinci, to choose a ground level location somewhere in Florence.>The chosen site was atop a pedestal outside the Palazzo Vecchio in the Piazza della Signoria. It took 40 men, four nerve wracking days to slowly transport the 12,000 pound “Giant” through the narrow streets. Even the orientation was taken into account, with David facing Rome, as if the Medici Giant was staring down the Pope himself. 